the protests of the government try to do both nationally make. it might be making things worse. by saying this is not how capitalism work this is our capitalism goes disastrously wrong. sundays independence referendum approaches police reinforcements raid boss long enough cuts on officials say the vote could be postponed if madrid agrees to compromise the. tech giants take center stage in the scandal on alleged russian meddling in u.s. elections as google joins facebook and twitter declaring it will testify to congress. exactly

two years since russia launched its first airstrikes in that war torn syria we look to what changed in that. thank you for watching r.t. international coming to you live from moscow. responding srijit of catalonia is on the verge of what could prove to be an historic decision with its independence referendum shadowed for sunday tensions are mounting in the region with extra police deployed on the streets and rains to prevent the counting of electronic votes martina question of reports from. this saturday as that last crucial day before the referendum on the end dependence of council on a cat stock analyst team a lot of movement in the streets barcelona and across the region now this. morning

spanish civil guard raid at the center of telecommunications and technologists of information to switch off applications that will be used to count the votes and we do know that the spanish police cordoned off the building now police presence has been tightened in different areas of the city especially on all the major squares and around school buildings that will be used as calling stations on sunday spanish authorities say that they have already shut down thirteen hundred schools across the region and this is really the half of all schools that catalonia has catalan officials say that they are ready to find a compromise for you know we have said to the spanish government that it's still not to wait to send a message expressing the will to find a new scenario for the referendum for a hose government we will be the first to welcome it to say let's talk and even postponed the october first vote meanwhile this saturday we see a lot of protests here in barcelona and most of the people are protesting against

the referendum to take place on sunday now we managed to speak to some people and listen to what they have to say. the president of spain has been sleeping for the past five years and during that time the government in catalonia has been preparing and fighting for independence and now the president has to act quickly and he's running around trying to solve this somehow. the kourt here franco to think that though they were they voted by these not democracy to me. what that thing is what to vote on how to vote it. and i think that votes are just kind of democratic but it felt to me if you take it to the extreme it can be an arc east on friday there was a massive rally on plot a spine you know which is also located on the hard barcelona we've seen thousand sofi people supporting the referendum mostly young people bringing flags of. not to

loni and also shouting slogans so as you can see as the date of the referendum draw was near the splits within the castle and society is getting more and more avid and with people from all stripes self society taking very views to the streets was the to her excuse. thanks was. well as tensions mount between madrid and barcelona both sides are trading accusations of extremism. there is disturbance it would. clearly be on the side of those who are advocating the referendum are. adopting nazi like attitudes by you know pointing out people who. are against that referendum and in the end the government has crossed

a very dangerous red line has decided to resurrect the best of franco as. well or and order in the region is maintained by the catalan regional police force known as the most austere score that well this replaced the spanish police locally almost ten years ago and is controlled by the catalan government and the council enforcers have been tasked with preventing sunday's referendum from taking place however fears are being expressed in madrid that officers might not comply the spanish government has deployed national military forces the civil guard to the region to ensure the vote does not go ahead six thousand civil guards have been stationed at ports in the region arriving on cruise ships chartered by the spanish interior ministry they'll stay in barcelona until october third well earlier this saturday morning a convoy of police vans left the port area heading into the city well meanwhile the spokesperson for catalonia as police force says that while the orders will be followed doesn't necessarily mean anything will be prevented. when the main

rules of police just to guarantee the internal security of our society in this respect cats and police do not support those either for or against the referendum or rather the catalans we have no choice but to abate the decisions of the court and prosecutor's office when it's about control over crowds and public order we have to see what happens in each individual case if we can't prevent something it doesn't mean we don't follow orders but the most probably we can't do anything about it. well the spanish government says the referendum is intended to break the . country however the debate over the referendum has extended well beyond the nation's borders one finnish m.p. has published his email exchange with the spanish ambassador in finland in it he asked the ambassador to respect human rights in catalonia and let the people vote the spanish diplomat fired back saying that if one day finland needed e.u.

solidarity it could go looking for it in catalonia or political analysts john make a stand being we are says the replies suggest the spanish government is on the edge the response is embarrassing it is preposterous it is certainly not a very diplomatic response and it clearly shows it displays that the spanish state apparatus the spanish authorities are extremely stressed and extremely nervous about what is going on in catalonia they are afraid that catalonia will become an independent state and it is quite striking how do you mean union is very quick to respond whenever it comes to crisis in turkey the crises in russia were on the other hand whenever we have gross violations of fundamental rights and freedoms really needs territory it's it remains very very worryingly silent it turns a blind eye it turns a deaf ear and this is something that the you should think about. google says it will cooperate with us also it is on alleged russian meddling in the

twenty sixteen presidential election it's the latest tech giant after facebook and twitter to make headlines in the saga to pin down outside interference earlier twitter published a report on alleged russian activities on its platform it says it's banned over two hundred suspicious accounts despite failing to link them directly to russia it also took a swipe at our sea by revealing confidential information regarding how much this channel spends on twitter advertising. well u.s. claims against russia range from using social media platforms to meddling in the u.s. election and disrupting the national football league but former u.s. congressman and presidential candidate ron paul is skeptical about these sessions but i think it's a witch hunt i think that they don't care about what hillary was doing and they want to they're very biased against that from him pain so far they haven't showed me an ad that was a that was a pro trump ad that was paid for by the russian government most of the time you

could look at some of this stuff that's going around and i think it's all coming from sore losers i thought it would be better with more outlets and the internet to counteract some of this but it looks like sometimes this backfires and they actually end up using the internet to try to stir up more trouble frankly i don't have the sensation that boy this is a big deal you know if we don't find out and find out exactly what those russians did to our elections you know the end of the world is coming i think that's a bit of fear mongering i can understand everything that is being a used and going on i just see what's happening in this post-election period as a result of a bunch of sore losers that were shocked that they didn't win the election and now they're out there to sort of go after a witch hunt but i think that the responsibility for us ought to be is what has our government done has our government been involved after they're in power and

unfortunately we're involved too much around the world. well meanwhile the mainstream media are also not letting up in their allegations against mosco m.s.n. b.b.c. host rachel maddow has accused russia of meddling just about everywhere from europe to the middle east. and takes a closer look at the claims i have reason to believe that russia does not watch this t.v. show so here's an experiment let's create a fake secessionist movement in the united states on the theory that russia will support secession of anyone in the west for any reason just because they had literally love for the west to break apart lately it seems that rachel maddow covers russia more than any other topic for the past few months she's managed to connect almost every news event to russia she starts with fires at ukrainian ammunition depots but also conveniently fails to mention that such fires have happened multiple times two thousand and four in two thousand and five and two thousand and six but facts don't matter when her sole agenda is to blame russia now

we might not be here to prove her wrong but we can however note that her reports are filled with in accuracies and we saw that this week in iraq where russia was one of the only nations on earth that supported the northern iraq referendum in which to come out of this week that they should break off northern iraq from the rest of iraq and become their own independent nation now that's completely false the russian foreign ministry said in a statement that moscow supports unity sovereignty and territorial integrity but it doesn't stop there even somehow manages to drag catalonia into this there's also going to be another independence referendum this weekend in spain where the capital on the region is voting on whether or not they'd like to break off and form an independent state apart from spain turns out russian one too as she says russia supports the catalan independence referendum but contrary to what maddow says russia views the issue as spain's domestic affairs a position which spain's ambassador to russia believes to be perfect and accusations of course don't even and there russia for years in this country has

actively promoted the secession of. rachel maddow sentiments. quite similar to the rest of western media and one of the only pieces of evidence cited is that the group's members contained grammatical errors but that's not the only time russia was under rachel maddow spotlight she's been accusing trump of colluding with russia since the election you're not having a terrible terrible dream also you're not dead and you haven't gone to hell this is your life till this is our election this is us this is our country we know of the russian attack on our election russian efforts to try to elect donald trump president it did not seem to be a super labor intensive process it was like an industrial process but you do need people to do the work they're apparently still working now this summer it's still against us even though rachel maddow is enjoying these record high ratings it seems as if political discourse has been reduced to celebrity gossip which is quite unfortunate that there is no longer some sort of boundary between news and

entertainment. but you seven some are saying the italian see if you have to in has received a less than warm welcome to hundreds of angry protesters surrounded the venue. and think. clashes broke out between police and demonstrators forcing fury at the policies of the few seven economies several arrests have reportedly been right and while ministers discussed prospects of a full thing just feel revolution tests on the streets cheering showing no signs of calming down. i. i figured i. think the thing

. russia's anti terror account paid in syria is two years old this saturday and after the break we'll take a look at what is achieved. there are some nazis in the a.f.d. it's not the mass of the h.d. voters but you know saying that our culture of atonement. all remembrance of nuns nazi crimes is wrong that's too much it's the attitude of some people in the yeah which by the way is no in the process of tearing itself apart. in case you're new to the game this is how it works not the economy is built around

corporate corporations from washington washington post media that. the voters elected a businessman to run this country business because. you must it's not business as usual it's business like it's never been done. welcome back french president emanuel has been hit by a fresh wave of criticism after cutting taxes for the wealthy he's responded by saying his latest tax reform is aimed at encouraging investment in promoting talent in the country however many people in paris don't agree warning the new leader is already becoming a president for the rich and that the reform will only worsen inequality in france not to show. how do you know when you're not just rich but you'll feel feet

which. yachts fast cars and race horses a definitely signs that eve more than a pretty penny to spend right. well not so much in france where the toys of the rich and famous no longer eligible for tax and that's causing quite a stir if you think this is. i think this is unfair but justice no longer exists in france there isn't a justice system anymore this is the hunger for power of a prince who wants to rule our country how he wants. government is only for the rich and he doesn't care about the poor we don't have a middle class there are only poor people who work for the rich yes i am outraged and we the young people should protest against this much switching how wrong taxes wealth his government claims that it wants to do you have the extremely wealthy

including tens of thousands of millionaires who fled the country because of the country's old tax system and even though only a tiny fraction of french people pay the old tax money going to own m.p.'s admit they going to face a hard time explaining bass. how could i explain this to six year olds who own an old. apartment that they will be taxed more than young traders driving a ferrari so cool that the taxes raised on the old system a cancelled out by the money that runs lost by people trying to avoid it but many people particularly pension is say they'll be harder hit under the new system and they do you realize they claim that match points government is only for the rich and the super rich charlotte didn't skate ot see this come across economic reforms have sparked numerous protests across from us demonstrations have

seen retired workers on the streets angry with taxes on pensions meanwhile student protesters and to use them spot clashes with police a french left wing party member told us that if nothing changes in macross policy his popularity will sink further. attracting a rich people to invest in france is always a similar agreement but mr macro forgot that france is one of the. best country for already the best country for. foreign investment mr michael was elected we we then we get you can rest presented by many medias like the new president would change things and it was a light because what he's proposing is this same old politics that only been for a beneficiary for the rich are seeing the impact will be that less and less people . believe that mr michael and that is popularity will go down.

syrian militants have suffered the most serious losses in the last few months according to the russian defense ministry over two thousand islamic state and al qaeda extremists including sixteen i still field commanders were killed in just eleven days the ministry added russian as strikes also injured almost three thousand medicine's well among those killed off four hundred citizens from former soviet states who joined the terrorist ranks the ministry converting that with the help of russian airstrikes the syrian army will soon drive i so from the eastern part of terrorists or well these are the latest pictures we filmed on the ground syrian government troops are continuing their advance against eisel and the current clearing terrorist strongholds on the main road from palmira which is the key supply route today. and today marks two years since russia launched its air campaign against terrorists in syria the decision was followed by a diplomatic dispute with washington but the campaign has also seen significant and

rapid victories on the ground. a. little. well this map shows how much territory i still has lost in syria since the air campaign began most of the terror group strongholds have fallen to president assad's army according to the russian defense ministry eighty seven percent of syria is now free of islamic state correspondents have been covering the russian campaign on the beginning. q.

this is the air base in love from which russian jets are launching the sorties against islam mixtape targets here in syria. the it's. time the pilots are ready to go it's a moment's notice. it's quite incredible to be standing hay in the pulse of the dead that decade since fifty of about the people around the world feed would be reduced to dust in this ad fifty at that laid down by the romans almost two thousand years ago that isis staged one of its sickest massacres the russian military considers it. crowding

jewel of the operation here in syria. won't come to the government's side of aleppo the sees what you see on your way here where just a few hundred meters away from the front line. where in the. and the rebels are pushing into aleppo again. the rescue as and now digging through the rubble looking for the body of a thirteen year old go. and did this to. you.

were it's a syrian still reposition overlooking the industrial quarter of that is sort of the battle is said to be theists isis fired back as we filmed shells speak on fooling around. we ran but the syrian batteries kept firing. life even did as ordered is still far from normal but at least they will be starving to death and the more.

right. now the u.s. and russia have agreed to work together on a new projects to build a space station that will or with the moon the station will serve as a lot pad for further space exploration including manned missions to mars we spoke to former i assess commander lee roy chowdhury he thinks joint projects like this help nations to improve their relations on earth. this deep space gateway is one of the key components of the new architecture that is more moon centric now and it's basically a node a very small a human tended kind of a space station that will enable us to both explore the moon and also service a departure point to go farther into the universe including possibly or hopefully one day to mars we want to go to mars in my opinion i think it makes a lot of sense to go back to the moon first because we want to make sure that everything we send them to mars before we send the crew there is going to work so we want to make sure habitats work the power sources power generators the rovers

spacesuits we want to train crews there the moon is only three days away so if something goes wrong you can get your crew back pretty quickly what the d.s.t. does gives you a lot of flexibility for exploration and i would fully expect all of the partners currently working on the i s s and hopefully new ones as well when we cooperate together in a big simple program like that like a space program that trickles down into other parts of the relationship and that can only be possible. well for more on that is another story. meanwhile my colleague will hobby will be back at the top of the hour at the. one.

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support throughout the n.f.l. even from teams with racist logos. other cognitive dissonance runs deep when you're young. well i like to struggle black lives matter protests wearing amos n andy t. shirt. why is everybody looking at me like this. so you may not think this story is important about the n.f.l. you know because football is your bread and circuses right is just bread and circuses that is russian by the way bread and circuses goes back to roman times meaning you give the people enough bread and circuses and you can abuse them all you want you can you can have them work in pursuit labor wages you can hire sculptors to put up grand monuments of you and your royal penis everywhere you know nowadays you can use all the people's tax dollars to drop bombs on who even cares or stand you know doesn't matter as long as the football players run past in the

soup line isn't too long who circus is are meaningless contrivances used as an opiate for the masses of course now the ruling elite also use opioids as an opiate for the masses metaphors are hard work so just go straight to the opioids yes whack everybody out on oxy cotton one family slurred speech and shivers they won't be complaining about voter suppression or low wages as they're cleaning the poop from their pants. but here's the point the bread and circuses are incredibly important in keeping those dumb and to sleep. so with even the bread and circus is starting getting angry start standing up it could be catastrophic for the broad julie waffles exploiting this nation all right when the tight rope walkers and the dancing elephants start going we're not ok with this.